Unstable service in Midrand/Centurion

[VMS]

For the last few days I have had problems again with both 3G and GPRS. It works fine and operates at maximum speed and then suddenly nothing. After a few reconnects the card crashes. Then a few hours later, at the same spot, everything is OK again.

Last night I wanted to send an urgent email (Midstream Estates). Got connected to 3G at 4 bars without antenna, but had no comms at all. Reconnected with GPRS (with antenna, 3 to 4 bars) and again nothing. Disconnected and reconnected again and got very slow and intermittend comms. Atleast got my letter out.

Then someone sent me a 1.8mb email. It downloaded for ages. I then took my laptop to another part of the house where I know it connects to another tower. Got about 2 bars but then it flew.

Question is if Vodacom is playing mad scientist with the system while getting HSDPA up and running?

VMS

 

[Hannes3G]

I also live in the Centurion (Wierda Park) area. And since about middle of March 2006 I started to experiance 3G & GPRS connectivity problems. During day tiem, the network seems fine. Only have to re-conenct 2 or 3 times durign the whole day.

At night, from about 6PM things change drastically. If my nokia 6680 is on 3G, i am unable to make or receive calls, get "Connection Error" when trying to call.

On my Vodafone Datacard, i am lucky is the connection stays up for more than 10 mins at a time. Trying to reconnect is also painful, maby after the 10th retry it connects ... after 10-20mins (sometiems even 5mins) the connections is unusable AGAIN, then you try patiently to try to reconenct again.

Moving to a diferent area in pretoria, my connection is stable again. In my point proving there is a specific problem in my area. May me and VMS conenct to the same tower.

Now paying over R1000.00 to Vodacom is senceless as i have no service when I need it most.

After numerous calls logged at Vodacom 155 the problem still persists.

I have last night tried a MTN sim in my Vodafone Datacard, and what a pleasure 3G works like a charm and no connection problems.

I am going to purchse myself a MTN simcard today, to use in my Vodacom purchased Datacard. What use is paying a R600 premium to vadacom if I cannot get any value from it.

The only thing to figure out now is how to get out early form my Vodacom contract. I have 6 months left on my 24Month contract. Pitty, as Vodacom 3G used to work perfect untill March 2006, and it do not seem to get fixed.

Hannes - With no 3G

 

[gummybear]

Centurion (Wierda Park) vs. (Zwartkop Ext.8)

I also have the same problem in Wierda Park can't work there 3g is a no go in that zone but in Cent. Zwartkop ext. 8 it works.

But the problem is that most of my data card usage is in that area can someone from Vodacom please help us or get someone that knows what they are doing to sort out the problems and stop *** around.

Thanks for the MTN tip I will go and get myself a sim from them today. (To Bad i can't cancel my contract at Vodacom: mad: )

Another Unhappy Vodacom customer